JohnnyDawes.com
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Johnny Dawes Home Page
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Johnny Dawes
Johnny Dawes is already a legend in British climbing. In 1986, he was responsible for perhaps the most inspired new route in the sport's recent history, a climb called Indian Face on the Welsh crag Clogwyn d'ur Arddu. A fall from its hardest move would most likely be fatal. But Dawes is much more than a risk-taker; his rich imagination for climbing has left outstanding new routes all over the country, not least on the gritstone edges of Derbyshire where his bold and fluid style pushed the barriers of the possible beyond the imagination of almost all his contemporaries.
Johnny has been experimenting on projects and with climbing existing routes in new ways. This has helped to develop new ways to learn and in the ongoing development of the classes.
In 2001 he extended his UK workshops which have now been experienced by over 3000 climbers. He has recently been asked to animate a sculpture - a 110 tonne boulder of Portland Stone at Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
